The White House highlighted comments Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made earlier this week to attack former President Donald Trump‘s role in sinking the bipartisan Ukraine-border bill.
Senators had unveiled a bipartisan bill to address border security while sending billions in aid to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invasion. But Republicans tanked the package, co-authored by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), at Trump’s urging.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) eventually advanced a series of separate foreign aid packages that stripped out the border provisions originally requested by Republicans, and Biden signed the package into law on Wednesday.
Earlier in the week, after the Senate had also passed the House bills, McConnell publicly stated that “our nominee for president did not seem to want us to do anything at all” regarding the border, as it might help President
